The Only Thing That Has Really Changed At Apple Is That There's No More Reality Distortion Fieldhttp://www.businessinsider.com/why-things-changed-for-apple-2013-3/comments
en-usWed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500Sun, 02 Aug 2015 14:36:54 -0400Jay Yarowhttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/5141f1c069bedd3f75000009jacknThu, 14 Mar 2013 11:50:24 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5141f1c069bedd3f75000009
nope, people are saying, "Samsung phones are superior"http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5141f15feab8ea1505000003jacknThu, 14 Mar 2013 11:48:47 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5141f15feab8ea1505000003
it's that Apple was never doing what it was perceived to be doing
a great point!http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5141f0fd69bedd7c74000008jacknThu, 14 Mar 2013 11:47:09 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5141f0fd69bedd7c74000008
in 1978http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5141f0506bb3f7ca2000001djackn2Thu, 14 Mar 2013 11:44:16 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5141f0506bb3f7ca2000001d
ur a suckerhttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/5141eff569bedde675000009jacknThu, 14 Mar 2013 11:42:45 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5141eff569bedde675000009
the jokes on you, but you probably wont get it.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5141efb1eab8ea5f7e00000cjacknThu, 14 Mar 2013 11:41:37 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5141efb1eab8ea5f7e00000c
What happened to Apple that it's been so thoroughly tarnished?
Nothing happened. They are doing exactly what they have always done.
What changed is the consumers. They have become a little wiser.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5140c47469bedd190a000013JamesWed, 13 Mar 2013 14:24:52 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5140c47469bedd190a000013
AAPL needs to acquire LNKD, Ebay, or Twitter? Are you nuts?
And right, iPhone and iPad was ONE BIG reality distortion field that completely and concretely revolutionized the mobile and tablet landscape... Call me a sucker for falling for that one.
Listen, the only thing AAPL needs to do is make products consumer *LOVE TO USE*... it's not easy, and I really hope they resist the urge to release average products for the sake of releasing products. My hope is that they leverage the iOS ecosystem to create *smart* appliances and electronics for the everyday typical dumb electronics and appliances we have today.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/514098acecad041a22000009David SimpsonWed, 13 Mar 2013 11:18:04 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/514098acecad041a22000009
How on earth can a business publication compare the revenue of a hardware company with the revenue of a software/advertising company - What a complete joke!http://www.businessinsider.com/c/514093d5eab8ea116500000aBruce CannonWed, 13 Mar 2013 10:57:25 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/514093d5eab8ea116500000a
The article and this discussion are both fascinating because I think that the "Jobs was magic" sentiment, and this article, and @apple's problem's comment are all variants on the KoolAid. No one has ever been able to use persuasion to make junk great. Advertising helps, but not that much. When Apple makes products that are useful and compelling, it sells products. When it makes bad products, they don't sell, regardless of whether Steve has been telling us they're great or not. When things sell, a company does well, when they don't, it doesn't. It isn't surprising that they can't coast on iPads and iPhones after the need has been pretty much filled, it's got nothing to do with Steve's "magic". There are plenty of needs waiting to be filled, and Apple may fill them and make another truckload (smart accessories and a truly smart TV are both great possibilities) and then people will be like "Oh, Cook, he's magic".http://www.businessinsider.com/c/514079596bb3f79857000008freddy beeWed, 13 Mar 2013 09:04:25 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/514079596bb3f79857000008
@jayyarrow - the Reality Distortion thing is still in full effect, if you call out all of apple's issues and the all revolve around marketing and not around product offerings...http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5140746b6bb3f79e4e000011zatoGibsonWed, 13 Mar 2013 08:43:23 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5140746b6bb3f79e4e000011
"Without Jobs, there is no one at Apple with the charisma to beat back the stories about Samsung's rise and Apple's fall."
The anti-Apple BS never ends. Apple "wrong", Apple "lose", Apple "fail", are driving motor of Tech "Journalism", t.e., where the money is.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51406a5e6bb3f7243b000020charvoWed, 13 Mar 2013 08:00:30 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51406a5e6bb3f7243b000020
Apple sells premium-priced products. In the emerging markets (China included), price is a huge factor due to the lack of subsidization. Before the S2 and Galaxy Note came out, a lot of people in Asia were still entranced with Apple stuff. They then tried the S2 and Note at affordable prices compared to the iPhone and found out that Samsung actually makes some decent stuff. It really helped that Google has been refining their Android OS quite well.
The US market is a different beast. The iPhone has been ingrained into popular culture so much. It's a tougher egg to crack.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/514067c36bb3f7833200000beuroWed, 13 Mar 2013 07:49:23 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/514067c36bb3f7833200000b
"Net profit was $13.1 billion. All three of those numbers were staggeringly huge and records for Apple.
For some context, Google's revenue was $14.42 billion during the same period. That's only $1.3 billion more than Apple's profit. In other words, the cash Apple is keeping is almost as much as the cash Google generates overall."
May we hope it's a hasty error, and not lack of basic financial knowledge? Net profit is not "cash" that a company gets. (this being said, apple makes also a huge amount of cash anyway)http://www.businessinsider.com/c/514054c369beddb36f000002unfavorable oddsWed, 13 Mar 2013 06:28:19 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/514054c369beddb36f000002
Charismatic founders cannot be replaced. Wendy's has completely flopped since Dave Thomas passed away.
The same thing WILL happen with Berkshire when Warren passes.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5140528eecad042f1700000dItisSGWed, 13 Mar 2013 06:18:54 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5140528eecad042f1700000d
Great tribute to Steve Jobs and rightly so he was marketing and product development genius despite many people’s reservation on his Kenny eye for next big things. However, we should not undermine Tim Cook and Jonathon Ive team; they have vision, resource, cult following and money to take Apple forward and I think new product with right supply chain will keep their supremacy in the marke! <a href="http://dearsrk.wordpress.com/2012/11/09/is-the-threat-of-apples-demise-real/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" >http://dearsrk.wordpress.com/2012/11/09/is-the-threat-of-apples-demise-real/</a>http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51404292ecad049b79000015Jahri AdlerWed, 13 Mar 2013 05:10:42 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51404292ecad049b79000015
He can't create a reality distortion field. He doesn't have the charisma to create the needed cult of personality, and it's too late for him to start developing it.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/514022e269beddbd7500000dOtherWayWed, 13 Mar 2013 02:55:30 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/514022e269beddbd7500000d
Another thing is apple revenue growth fell from 40% yoy to 10%.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5140173969beddfd5c000003OtherWayWed, 13 Mar 2013 02:05:45 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5140173969beddfd5c000003
Apple can acquire nintendo wiihttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/513ff8b26bb3f79867000007Tortured_VerseTue, 12 Mar 2013 23:55:30 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/513ff8b26bb3f79867000007
This article's basic meme is a ripoff of this article that came out on March 4: <a href="http://techland.time.com/2013/03/04/apples-reality-distortion-field-relocates-to-wall-street/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" >http://techland.time.com/2013/03/04/apples-reality-distortion-field-relocates-to-wall-street/</a>
But Business Insider is really working the anti-Apple meme. They'll ride this horse until it drops.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/513ff420eab8ea1009000012GodTue, 12 Mar 2013 23:36:00 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/513ff420eab8ea1009000012
You people are insane...company for "old people"?
Still have a portfolio that includes the best phone, music players, tablet, laptop, desktop and TV extension device on the market...http://www.businessinsider.com/c/513fe49aeab8ea236500001eFreddy beeTue, 12 Mar 2013 22:29:46 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/513fe49aeab8ea236500001e
Apple was awesome.... In 2009http://www.businessinsider.com/c/513fe4116bb3f7524000000aFreddy beeTue, 12 Mar 2013 22:27:29 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/513fe4116bb3f7524000000a
Apple and eBay are very different.... Apple has an innovative google partnered with a myriad of hardware partners aligned Gainst them... With a leader who is apparently terrified of changing anything other than storage sizes and an extra row of icons.... Tim is cookedhttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/513fcb7eecad049224000001SSTue, 12 Mar 2013 20:42:38 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/513fcb7eecad049224000001
NOT TO WORRY
Apple stock has always traded peculiarly, plagued in early years by the name which corporate types couldn't take seriously, than by disbelief as the roll our of new products captured the public's imagination. The stock would run up before earnings which would be up 50% than crash because they failed to meet the whisper number or guidance was conservative. The multiple has never been high. Cook is fine, Apple will continue to be a market leader in a variety of products.
I'm writing this on a 5 year old Mac, no virus protection needed, 32" inch screen as clear as a sunny day, no wires, no box, sleek and beautiful.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/513fc00b69beddd17f000018NickTue, 12 Mar 2013 19:53:47 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/513fc00b69beddd17f000018
I'm not sure this article is a bash on Apple, more an effort to explain what changed. It even implies the public opinion has swayed too far away from reality in the bad way: that Apple is stronger than everyone treats it today.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/513fbf8e6bb3f7367f000002Nolan KennardTue, 12 Mar 2013 19:51:42 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/513fbf8e6bb3f7367f000002
That's actually funny, maybe they'll do that.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/513fbf02ecad04fb0b000003Nolan KennardTue, 12 Mar 2013 19:49:22 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/513fbf02ecad04fb0b000003
The difference is Microsoft was always a copier and follower. Ballmer had no chance and him being an oaf makes it worse.
Office has competitors that are free (e.g. Openoffice, googledocs), Windows is #3 OS, linux is better and free, the other stuff Microsoft makes who cares?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/513fb8276bb3f7cc6d000016Yuri STue, 12 Mar 2013 19:20:07 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/513fb8276bb3f7cc6d000016
I sense a strong presence of AAPL investors....http://www.businessinsider.com/c/513fb5d06bb3f78f6b000004Uninterested BystanderTue, 12 Mar 2013 19:10:08 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/513fb5d06bb3f78f6b000004
So Apple's chief b.s. artist is gone and they can't spin gold out of their form over function devices any more.
Perhaps if the switched to another pin configuration to boost profits?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/513fb5906bb3f70367000035rupertoTue, 12 Mar 2013 19:09:04 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/513fb5906bb3f70367000035
today the competition has superior options... and apple seems crippled... incapable of keeping pace.
the best new idea they have is a watch? puleasehttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/513fb4f36bb3f71467000022Joe2Tue, 12 Mar 2013 19:06:27 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/513fb4f36bb3f71467000022
Wall street saw it thats why the pe ratio was always so lowhttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/513fb215ecad042b6e000050Mr HappyTue, 12 Mar 2013 18:54:13 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/513fb215ecad042b6e000050
It sounds to me like Jay Yarrow is living in his own reality distortion field.
"If Samsung phones are so superior to Apple's, then why would people choose a one-year old phone with a tiny screen over a cutting-edge big-screened phone?"
Jay, I don't think many people are actually saying Samsung phones are as superior to Apple's as you imply by this statement. I actually think that they are saying that iPhones are no longer as superior as they once used to be. The competition has closed the gap. Why can't you accept that? The argument of who's phone is better than who's will keep fanboys of any manufacturer busy until the end of time, but the undistorted reality is that as good as iPhones undoubtedly are they are no longer in a league of their own.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/513fb1e56bb3f78a60000032GonzoTue, 12 Mar 2013 18:53:25 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/513fb1e56bb3f78a60000032
The problem isn't that Samsung is doing what Apple can't do, it's that Apple was never doing what it was perceived to be doing. Samsung is offering a variety that fits with typical market demands and investing to grow it's market like a normal business. Apple is clinging to the model that only worked in the environment created by the cult of personality surrounding Jobs.
Samsung has its niche well protected because it's been building it up to take marketshare from Apple. To succeed on a going-forward basis, Apple has to build a new niche that doesn't require Jobs, but also one that doesn't play into Samsung's strengths in the traditional business model. With the cash reserves available to Tim Cook, there are plenty of options, but Microsoft's Ballmer has demonstrated how poorly that can be played if you aren't careful.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/513fb109eab8ea6a6e000020junk scienceTue, 12 Mar 2013 18:49:45 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/513fb109eab8ea6a6e000020
THANK YOU. humanity is better off without a digital prison
jobs would deliver you pretty boxes as long as you agreed to complete obedience. monocultures never lasthttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/513fb067ecad04d06b00001cmike beeTue, 12 Mar 2013 18:47:03 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/513fb067ecad04d06b00001c
"It's arguable that Wall St. should have seen this coming"
It's more arguable that Wall Street made a shedload of cash on the way down.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/513fb02deab8eaf96d00001daTue, 12 Mar 2013 18:46:05 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/513fb02deab8eaf96d00001d
He's from the Samsung Astroturfing crew and he's staying on message.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/513fafa669bedd735c00000dJ.C.Tue, 12 Mar 2013 18:43:50 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/513fafa669bedd735c00000d
Great article. I was just talking about this today. Seems a lot of people are jumping on the bash apple bandwagon just because it's getting more page views, when in reality, Apple is still strong.
For example, today's bashing by Peter Misek. I mean seriously, the man hardly ever gets anything right when it comes to Apple.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/513faf1f69bedd485900000fGonzoTue, 12 Mar 2013 18:41:35 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/513faf1f69bedd485900000f
Humanity is better for it, though. Apple has put out some very good products and forced the market to consider new avenues, but it kept the underlying mindset Jobs had all along - that Apple is a monopoly and all must play by it's rules. That psychosis alone is why the original Mac line was floundering in what, fittingly, was called the PC market. He certainly sold his customer base on it, but at the time, most of the computer market was driven by people who did their homework before buying - the people who don't fall for reality distortion. As a result, he was out of the company for years.
What allowed his triumphant return was the rise of the non-technical user. People who bought the shiny white "revolutionary" knockoff of existing products that had been refined into something more ready for customers. OsX put his company in the good graces of a lot of technologists who liked the underlying *nix base, but this largely was a response to Microsoft rather than a love of Mac.
While no one gets new consumer products larger early sales than Jobs, humanity is not better off for having iOS, iTunes or the App Store. The "ours doesn't stink" attitude sunk very good, open alternatives just as effectively as Microsoft's big money approach to killing competition, limiting the market and stifling innovation that it couldn't control or buy. It also created a model for exploitation of both developers and customers.
The reality distortion field is not missed.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/513faf10eab8eaf66a00001faTue, 12 Mar 2013 18:41:20 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/513faf10eab8eaf66a00001f
Which is why the stock is being treated as such.
However, Cook is no Ballmer. Although that is clearly how it is being spun.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/513faed8ecad04ca6b00001eaTue, 12 Mar 2013 18:40:24 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/513faed8ecad04ca6b00001e
Looks like they have a one negative article per "journalist" per day. More if they can pump 'em out.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/513fae3669bedd1a53000044appleincTue, 12 Mar 2013 18:37:42 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/513fae3669bedd1a53000044
Oh really? Where is your prof? I would like to see the numbers that support that comment.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/513fae156bb3f73c5e000008Vladimir PutitinTue, 12 Mar 2013 18:37:09 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/513fae156bb3f73c5e000008
What?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/513fae0e6bb3f7325c000034Samsung JobsTue, 12 Mar 2013 18:37:02 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/513fae0e6bb3f7325c000034
The entire argument fails as soon as you can not introduce us to the Job's equivalent at Samsung.
If Samsung can do it without Jobs, no reason why Apple could not continue to do it with less hype.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/513fad8e69beddfe52000026the bigger problemTue, 12 Mar 2013 18:34:54 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/513fad8e69beddfe52000026
the argument can be re-framed another way: apple has actually done more evolving than the majority of tech companies. they have released dozens of variants of iphones, ipads, macbooks, ipods, etc.
Apple's problem is that they are forced to keep developing new products to be relevant and if they miss a beat the stock &amp; earnings will get murdered as is happening now. But the second problem is the mass realization that the first problem exists, hence the negative investor sentiment.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/513fad8eeab8ead06500002djunk scienceTue, 12 Mar 2013 18:34:54 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/513fad8eeab8ead06500002d
everything you are saying was said about msft when ballmer took overhttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/513fad5eeab8ea786600001ajunk scienceTue, 12 Mar 2013 18:34:06 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/513fad5eeab8ea786600001a
tim cook is a flop
no one wants to admit it yet among the apple cogniscenti, but its painfully obvious
he's brought nothing to the table but pointless revs of existing products, and lawsuits
i called it months ago and have been beating the drum. in a year you'll start hearing people call for his head, lamenting apple's lost dominancehttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/513fad3feab8ea0166000015mel o deeTue, 12 Mar 2013 18:33:35 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/513fad3feab8ea0166000015
Plausible analysis,but it seems that the decloaking of the reality distortion field is what allowed the public narrative to likewise focus on non-product issues:
* Chinese workers, payments and conditions
* Windfall profits and mark-ups well outside the norm for the industry (no one likes over paying)
* Conspicuous consumption overload (must buy new iPhone every few months)
* Planned obsolescence overload (must buy new iPhone every few months)
* Censorship within the walled garden (as if Mitt Romney or Sarah Palin were imposing their morals on we mere humans)
Apple's veneer has worn off for these emotional reasons more than the lack of some massively unique product hitting the shelves. But when the reality distortion field fails, all of these other nasty little things are allowed to seep into the public's mindset.
It's hard to re-engage reality distortion weaponry when you're on the defensive; much easier to flip that switch when you're traveling at Warp and your Tachyon crystals are humming...http://www.businessinsider.com/c/513facca6bb3f7d357000029jamesxxxxxxxxTue, 12 Mar 2013 18:31:38 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/513facca6bb3f7d357000029
This is media created sensationalism.
The fabricated love/hate narratives continue.
The iPhone was a Jobs product - total revolution.
Jobs was *against* the iPad - but his team pushed and eventually he capitulated: revolution.
The only real story is that after a decade of iPod/iPhone/iPad innovations, there doesn't seem to be much in the pipeline to keep the magic=margins going.
So, short of wearable information such as 'iWatch' or a truly game changing 'Apple TV' well, then they will succumb to the Asian cost differentiators.
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It's really just a product line issue.
I doubt significantly that Apple's DNA has changed because of Job's death - perhaps there isn't anyone to grab people by the collar and push them to success ... which is material ...
It's arguable that Wall St. should have seen this coming re: product pipeline and maturing of product categories.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/513facbb6bb3f7295a000007Tom PetersonTue, 12 Mar 2013 18:31:23 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/513facbb6bb3f7295a000007
Apple is for old people now.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/513fac54ecad045d65000013Nolan KennardTue, 12 Mar 2013 18:29:40 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/513fac54ecad045d65000013
This is interesting and I think it is partially correct. Cook is not the same person as Steve Jobs.
However, for the next decade or so, Apple will still be making a fortune and the stock will rise.
If you think Apple's future is dim, go over to an Apple store. See how all the products in there shine and are superior in every way to the competitor's products.
The distortion field helps guys on Wall St. These guys don't know what something's value is more than my dog.
Remember that billionaires lost their net worth, and billions of capital evaporated, because some dudes on Wall Street thought that a $500K mortage to an illegal alien in California was a good thing to base bonds on.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/513fabb769beddfe52000003On vacationTue, 12 Mar 2013 18:27:03 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/513fabb769beddfe52000003
Finally! Proof that one person makes a difference. Companies wish a business degree with some pedigree translates to success. If one wants to earn a living on that go to Goldman and push paper. Jobs was the difference, get over it people, he was the difference!http://www.businessinsider.com/c/513fab6069bedd7250000018Ron WilsonTue, 12 Mar 2013 18:25:36 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/513fab6069bedd7250000018
How many ways can BI bash Apple on a daily basis?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/513faa176bb3f7695300001bSchmidtTue, 12 Mar 2013 18:20:07 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/513faa176bb3f7695300001b
Steve was a FREE MAN. He didn't care, and/because he didn't have to, about anything anyone was telling him. He was not a corporate slave.
Apple is now lead by corporate slaves. Corporate slaves will always be concerned what their environment is thinking of them because they are dependent on them. Corporate slaves care about themselves, not about the company products. It is their very sound and rational decision. They will never decide in favor of improving products unless it at least secures their pay checks. It is bad on all corporate levels, from janitor to CEO.
Apple was lucky to have won Jobs to lead them. Jobs is gone, and now Apple is just another corporation lead by corporate slaves. I am sure that Samsung is much much better at corporatism than Apple. Apple can't win against Samsung. Wall Street sharks know exactly how it works and that's why they are dumping Apple's stock.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/513fa9e36bb3f78555000005freddy beeTue, 12 Mar 2013 18:19:15 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/513fa9e36bb3f78555000005
You missed the most important bullet. Apples phones, os, and apps stopped evolving... 4 years ago, the iphone was far superior to any other options... Today, the competition has excellent offerings. And the competition offers different options in terms of size, platform openness, and individual taste. Apple has rested on their laurels while everyone else continued to innovate.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/513fa9d6eab8ea115e000006The king is dead. Long live the kingTue, 12 Mar 2013 18:19:02 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/513fa9d6eab8ea115e000006
Apple's stock has inflated and contracted reflecting the distance between its products and those of its competitors. That distance has nearly vanished and with it the premium investors were willing to pay for Apple.
Apple's price reflects now what the company is: a gadget company with a tremendous brand recognition. The same kind of recognition Motorola and Nokia once had.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/513fa91c6bb3f7b353000004Yuri STue, 12 Mar 2013 18:15:56 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/513fa91c6bb3f7b353000004
Very few product lines, that are self-cannibalizing (in sales terms), and a closed eco-system. See you sub $300s. Most of the volume in AAPL happened under $200 - FYI.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/513fa912eab8ea225b00000bCManSBTue, 12 Mar 2013 18:15:46 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/513fa912eab8ea225b00000b
I think Jonathan Ive could be that guy for Apple, he's actually been more instrumental in Apples current products then Tim Cook,http://www.businessinsider.com/c/513fa90decad040d61000007dime10Tue, 12 Mar 2013 18:15:41 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/513fa90decad040d61000007
There is absolutley nothing special about Apple and their products. And that's the reality which has been distorted for so long. Deception. Contradiction. Confusion. Hypocrisy. Arrogance. It's all becoming clear now and Apple have themselves to blame. Catastrophic failure is their only destiny. It's time to wake up out of that deep hypnotic dillusional state of mind, Appleheads!! Get a Nokia Lumia 920.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/513fa6d26bb3f7c84a00000eapple's problemTue, 12 Mar 2013 18:06:10 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/513fa6d26bb3f7c84a00000e
Without Jobs, there is no one at Apple with the charisma to beat back the stories about Samsung's rise and Apple's fall. There is no one to explain what's happening with the iPhone business. There is no one to artfully drop hints about future products and massacre the products of rivals.
Even if jobs were alive it wouldn't matter. The problem is all the enthusiasm for Apple has evaporated because it's products (phones, computers,pads) <a href="http://goo.gl/z4fuX" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" >http://goo.gl/z4fuX</a> and isn't going to return anytime soon
Apple needs to make a major acquisition..maybe buy LNKD, Ebay or Twitter to get investors excited again.